Saturday, January 3, 2015

“Life without love is a disaster. The
person who has made the most spectacular success but reaches life’s end without
learning love has totally failed. Do not envy those in the limelight of
publicity, those with scintillating intellects or those who have accumulated
great wealth and all that it affords. If one hasn’t learnt to love in the
process, his life is a disaster.”........... Paul E Billheimer, German theologian.

As a opening article in my blog for
the current year, I thought it would be apt to touch upon the subject which is
the crying need of the hour. We are in a world that is torn by violence, hatred
and both expressed and suppressed anger. While expressed anger leads to
violence, suppressed anger leads to personal health damage and psychological
imbalance.

The opening quote from Paul E Billheimer
sums up the priority of individuals in society who seek intellectual fulfilment
and the resulting materialistic well being and the process which has its origin
in the mind. The benchmark of success in life is pegged in the dimensions of
intellect, wealth and power. This leaves no room for the heart
intelligence to operate.

A human being is the balanced manifestation
of both the Divine and the physical realm. The chakra

system of energy centres clearly
divides the lower three chakras to the material world and the upper three
chakras to the Cosmic arena and the heart chakra or the Anahata chakra as the
meeting point of these energies. It is also the balanced node at which the toroidal
coordinate of our relational field, with the external world, originates. The
heart puts out 5000 times stronger Electromagnetic field as compared to the
brain.

In this universe attraction is the
binding quality through which atoms, elements, DNA and organisms of increasing
complexity and we human beings are born. Birth originates in love and
attraction of two mutually compatible entities. If this is so there has to be a
meaning to the very process of life at the very source. In the Gospel of
Thomas, Jesus says:

"The disciples
said to Jesus, "Tell us, how will our end come?"

Jesus said, "Have you found the beginning, then,
that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning
is." ..........Saying
18

The deep nature of all manifestations
is explained by Jesus. A circle has no beginning or end. The brief
manifestation of human life is but an element of a grand cycle where the soul
is attracted to manifestation through self love. This self love is not purely
subjective but a love that sees and understands that all objective realities
are expression of the subjective consciousness.

When we are told that man and
woman are created in the image of God, it is this meaning as the very process
of creation is the self expression of the Divine. In the evolving process of
life both in this world and in the future life of this consciousness, the
process of attraction through love is fundamental. Love or attraction leads to
generation of higher order of consciousness while repulsion leads to chaos and
increase in entropy or disorder.

This is why all spiritual masters
stressed on the importance of love and compassion for all creation.

One of the darkest period of human history is the events at the Auschwitz death camps during the Second world war.
Ramgiri Braun (Andreas Braun) was born in post war Germany but sought spiritual
path in India and he writes:

“My heart
opens to the point of breaking, further than what the mind can understand.
These children are my children (all those who suffered and died in the death camps). I can do nothing but surrender as the
mysterious spirit of Auschwitz operates on my heart. In the deep stillness I
open, and it is painful and blissful at the same time. In the innermost chamber
of the heart something new is born, a new ability to be present and to love.
What remains is the sense of a larger heart, a compassion that appears to arise
from beyond the centre of time and space, much larger than what I could feel as
a separate being.” .............Ramgiri Braun from his essay “Resurrection: Finding hope in the heart
of darkness” about his experience at Bernie Glassman’s annual “Bearing Witness
Retreat” at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

“Heart Sourcing is the direct way to all the
unconditional love within you. It is the discovery of the soul’s potential to
nurture itself and all others around it. each one of us is a pure vehicle in
the transmission of this essential yoga of the Heart. Pure Love is a gift that
can change the world!” ....................Ram
Dass

Each one us can practice this
great spiritual exercise of an outpouring of unconditional love which has more
power than all prayers or rituals of all religions.

An all encompassing love for all
is the greatest need of the hour both for us as individuals as well as for
humanity at large.

Let me conclude this short article
with a quote from Mother Theresa, who was an embodiment of unconditional love.

"I have found the paradox, that if you love
until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

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